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Date de parution
01 mars 2021
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781684037964
Langue
English
Publié par
Date de parution
01 mars 2021
EAN13
9781684037964
Langue
English
A MEDITATION ON I AM
SAHAJA PUBLICATIONS
P O Box 887, Oxford OXI 9PR www.sahajapublications.com
A co-publication with New Harbinger Publications 5674 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609 United States of America
Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books
Copyright © Rupert Spira 2021
All rights reserved
No part of this book shall be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information retrieval system without written permission of the publisher
Designed by Rob Bowden
Printed in the United States of America on 100% recycled paper.
ISBN 978-1-68403-794-0
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data on file with publisher
Turn towards Me and I will take you into Myself
Contents
INTRODUCTION
I AM
AFTERWORD
PUBLICATIONS BY RUPERT SPIRA
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
THE UNITY OF BEING
T hroughout our lives we make statements such as, 'I am five years old', 'I am twenty-four years old', 'I am lonely', 'I am in love', 'I am excited', 'I am depressed', 'I am having lunch', 'I am reading a book', 'I am married', 'I am single', and so on.
In each of these statements we refer to our basic self or being — 'I am' — which is subsequently coloured by various thoughts, feelings, states of mind, activities or relationships. In each of these descriptions a temporary quality or characteristic is added to our being and, as a result, 'I am' becomes, or seems to become, 'I am this or that'.
The contents of experience are continuously changing. No thought, feeling, state of mind, activity or relationship is essential to us. They seem to temporarily qualify our self, but our basic sense of being remains the same throughout. It is the changeless background of our ever-changing experience.
We are now the same self that we were yesterday, that we were last year and that we were as a young child. The self who experiences loneliness or depression is the same self who knows excitement or the experience of being in love, just as the one who was in a relationship is the same one who is now single.
What accounts for this conviction that we are always the same person? After all, none of our thoughts, images, feelings, sensations, perceptions, activities or relationships remain the same. And yet there is undoubtedly a current that runs consistently throughout all changing experience.
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Our being or self is the constant factor in all changing experience, just as a screen is the stable background upon which all movies are played. In a movie, no two images appear concurrently; if they did, they would be the same image. Therefore, no single image is directly related to any other in the film.
It is the screen that lends continuity to this otherw
